Gossip Girl: You Know You Love Me

You Know You Love Me is about a group of upper class kids and their lives. Each chapter is about a different character. The chapters explain there lives as they live them and what goes on in their lives. There is three girls and two boys. Blair, Nate, Dan, Serena, and Jenny. These five kids lives interwine as they become friends, more than friends, and enemies.

I will start with Blair. She is a senior and one of the most popular girls at her school for girls. She has the most popular, best looking boyfriend, Nate Archibald, and she thinks that they are in love. Blair has their plans for the future all laid out. She wants them both to go to Yale and then get married and have children. She has everything planned out. And then there is Serena. Serena and Blair used to be best friends and then Serena moved away to a boarding school and left Blair in the dust. Serena then got kicked out of the boarding school and had come back to her normal life, but what she didn’t expect was that Blair wasn’t going to take her back as a friend. Serena is beautiful and everyone likes her. Next there is Dan and Jenny. Dan and Jenny are siblings and are good friends with Serena. Dan is more in love with Serena and Jenny is her friend. Jenny is a little freshman and is in love with Nate. Nate is cheating on Blair with Jenny but he hasn’t told her yet. The five characters all know each other but don’t all like each other just as friends I should say.

So in the book before this it was just about how Nate and Blair had to fix their relationship and how Blair had befriended Serena. So in this book Blair’s mother is planned to get married and Blair is dreading every minute of it. Blair also has a Yale interview that has to go perfect because she has been dreaming of going to Yale since she was a little girl. Blair’s mother has decided that she wants her sisters and all of Blair’s friends to be her bridesmaids and that would include; Blair (the maid of honor), Katie, Isabel, Serena, and two of Blair’s aunts. Blair was upset when she had found out that Serena was going to be a bridesmaid and even more mad at her mother. Blair doesn’t like her mother’s boyfriend and her new stepdad is bringing on another son, Aaron. Blair is having more problems than just Serena and a wedding, Nate won’t talk to her. Blair blames it on Serena and the tension gets even bigger.

Serena has been spending a lot of time with Dan lately and Dan takes it a little more seriously than he should. He has been writing over obsessive poems about her and he thinks about her all the time. When the wedding rolls around and Serena asks Dan to be her date, Dan goes even crazier. At the wedding comes Dan finally figures out that he is being to obsessive with Serena and doesn’t talk to her anymore, but he finds a new girl, Vannessa. We don’t figure a lot about her because then the story ends. Serena runs into Blair at the wedding in the bathroom crying because Blair just figured out that Nate was cheating on her. Serena does something to Blair that changes her mind. Will you ever know what Blair decides about Serena?

Nate and Jenny run into each other in the park, and Nate figures out he has some feelings for her. Jenny has feelings for Nate and they fall in love. Nate doesn’t tell Blair about this girl and he decides to ignore her and not return her calls. When the wedding comes around Nate tells Jenny to meet him in the hotel bar at the wedding. He was supposed to be Blair’s date but he blew her off for Jenny. What will happen between them?

So as these five kids lives intertwine and the kids go crazy over each other, they all have issues. The kids live in the upperclass and they expect everything to come to them. They don’t care about others and do whatever they want. The kids are allowed to drink, smoke, and do whatever else they please. The parents don’t care what they do. This book is really interesting and keeps you interested. What will happen to each kid as they struggle and try to fix her problems? Read Gossip Girl: You Know You Love Me, by Cecily Von Ziegesar.

By: Stephanie